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Alleged killer said to wield knife from sink

Jorge Cortes, center, stands with his attorney, Calvin Carr, left, at his arraignment in Leominster District Court Monday

LEOMINSTER - Police say a 58-year-old used a knife from his kitchen sink to stab his girlfriend to death after an argument at a city apartment complex early Sunday morning, according to court documents.

Jorge Cortes, of 25 State St. Apt. C, was arraigned on a murder charge in District Court Monday morning and was ordered held without bail.

He is accused of killing Sonia I. Rios, 42, who police found dead of "multiple stab wounds" in Cortes' Riverside Village apartment, Assistant

District Attorney Terry McLaughlin said at the hearing. "He remembers getting a knife from the kitchen," said McLaughlin.

"He does not remember anything after that."

After the alleged stabbing, Cortes left his apartment and went to his daughter's house at 86 Pleasant St.

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